How to assert an element based on its Text - Selenium WebDriver with JAVA

Question

I am working on selenium webdriver, and I came up with a certain scenario. There is a drop down list, and user selects one of the values (Text). The selected value (text) is now displayed on the drop down field.

I want to know how can I extract the text out of that element (div) and then assert it with the selected value (text).

The HTML of the element is:

<div class="kac-entry kac-select kac-display ng-binding" ng-click="toggleDropdown()" ng-hide="shouldShowPlaceholder()" ng-class="{btn: btnStyle, 'btn-primary': btnStyle}" style="">      ^NYA (NYSE COMPOSITE INDEX (NEW METHOD))   </div>

The xpath of the above element is:

//price-trigger[@class='ng-isolate-scope']/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/k-select/div/div[1]

The text in the HTML element is ^NYA (NYSE COMPOSITE INDEX (NEW METHOD)). I want to get this title and check if this is the option (value) that user actually selected or not.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Ami Patel · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-08 11:20:17Z

Just wrap your WebElement into Select Object as shown below

Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("groupSelect")));

if you want to select by xpath

By.xpath("//price-trigger[@class='ng-isolate-scope']/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/k-select/div/div[1]")

Assert.assertEquals("Please select any option...", select);

Syntax:

String selectedOption = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("Type the xpath of the drop-down element"))).getFirstSelectedOption().getText();

Assert.assertEquals("Please select any option...", selectedOption);

More in detailed on selecting value from dropdown

<html>
<body>
<select id = "designation">
<option value = "MD">MD</option>
<option value = "prog"> Programmer </option>
<option value = "CEO"> CEO </option>
</option>
</select>
<body>
</html>

Now to identify dropdown do

Select dropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("designation")));

To select its option say 'Programmer' you can do

dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Programmer ");

or

dropdown.selectByIndex(1);

or

dropdown.selectByValue("prog");

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